Chapter Seventeen
Myrtle said, “I heard that he was.”
Red said, “Well, I remember that they weren’t. Boone wanted to date Tara. Honestly, if it were today and he was hounding her like he was, she’d probably have put some kind of restraining order on him.”
Myrtle sat back in her chair. “Is that so? And I thought he was supposed to be some sort of heartthrob. That all the girls wanted to go out with Boone.”
Red shrugged. “That might be the case overall, but Tara sure didn’t want to. And she didn’t have to! She was a beautiful girl and she could have gone out with anybody that she wanted to. But the truth of the matter is that, looking back, she simply wasn’t ready to start dating. And that only seemed to make Boone more determined than ever to go out with her. In fact, he was going aroun
